Well our story is kind of a funny one. I'll try and condense it down a bit without missing out on the big stuff. I moved to Denver last fall at the end of August to take a job with Denver KLife. The first 2-3 weeks I was there, I stayed with Bryan and Tayler while I looked for an apartment. That Labor Day weekend, my friend Kym was in town from BV, Colorado for a visit before a weekend flight out. Seeing as I didn't actually have a place of my own, she resorted to spending the night on her friends couch, her friend being Adam. Despite the fact that she wasn't staying with me, I couldn't miss out on seeing Kym so I picked her up at his house to grab a bite to eat. When I showed up at the house, I sat for a short while chatting with Kym, Adam, and his girlfriend at the time. While chatting with the 3 of them, Adam and I came to discover how much our worlds intertwined through Kanakuk, Arkansas, and now in Denver. We knew a number of the same people, including Kym, and he was even living with Brad who was (and still is) dating Kat, a girl I worked at Kanakuk with years and years ago. Small world. That being said, he had a girlfriend, and Kym and I were hungry, so the conversation ended and we went on our way. (Side note: thought he was cute for sure, but again.... girlfriend) Fast forward 2ish weeks and the Hogs were taking on Bama in a big SEC match up. Adam's roommate Brad is a huge Bama fan and Adam is a Hogs fan, so naturally they invited a crew over to watch the game at their house. Kym HAPPENED to be in town that weekend, chatted with Adam, and called me to invite me to the house to watch the game. With Kari and Blair in tow, we watched the 2nd half of the Hogs/Bama game all together. Kym, Adam, and I chatted throughout the game and watched the Hogs lose another heartbreaker (big surprise). I, along with my crew, left the house and as we were leaving Blair and Kari both looked at me and said "he's cute, you should date him" to which my only reply was "he has a girlfriend".
That week we connected through facebook (it is the age of technology) and began emailing/messaging back and forth. (Side note: by the time all this started, the girlfriend was out of the picture.... just to be clear.) Our messages moved from one sentence to pages and pages and from surface stuff to deeper, more serious stuff. Over that next couple weeks, we carried on a conversation over email that has since totaled maybe 70 pages on Word (according to Adam's tally back in January... not sure what the count would be now). Through that messaging and emailing, we covered a whole lot of ground on things and I know for me, I got to see more of who he is. So, through the emailing came a trip to Costco for a gym membership which he swears I've used only 7 times since (not true), another hogs game with some fellow Razorback fans, phone conversations, a random visit after a run, walks, a RUN (as in me running with him), and more. We began talking consistently, running into each other at various gatherings of people (Halloween parties), and officially went on our first date to the Greg Laswell concert here in Denver on November 6. He still claims it is only because of my numerous promptings and "subtle" hints that we even went. I deny, obviously... but don't complain about his excellent taste in music.
Over the course of the rest of 2010, we started spending a lot of time together, relaxing together, getting yummy food together, and just learning more and more about each other. By the time December rolled around, I stamped the "I like you I'm okay with calling you my boyfriend" on us and invited Adam to Indiana to celebrate New Years with some of my dearest Indy friends AND meet the family in the process. He on the flip side, had apparently just been waiting for me to give him the okay/confirmation that we're on the same page so he could book a flight he had looked up at least a week before I asked. Apparently, he felt the same way. After those few days together in Indy and after he met the whole family (and shmoozed them of course), I knew he was something different. By the time we were back in Denver and I was back from the KLife Staff retreat, things moved down the more serious route pretty quickly. After the time apart over Christmas and a long weekend apart in January, I knew that I was a fan of being WITH him, not away from him. With school, summer, and fall decisions looming large we entered into serious "future" conversations together and surprisingly, I didn't freak out! If you know me, commit-a-phobe jokes are a plenty.
All that to say, conversations about the future paired with the realization of how much we really do care about each other, it was only a matter of time before we filled the rest of the world in on what we already knew. So consider yourself informed! We're super excited to be getting married September 4 and look forward to setting up life with one another here in Denver!
